“To be in a stew is all of a stew.”
“Buttercup's mother hesitated, then put her stew spoon down. (This was after stew, but so is everything. When the first man first clambered from the slime and made his first home on land, what he had for supper that first night was stew.)”
“Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.”
“Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.”
“Go and do, don't sit and stew.”
“Life is like a stew, you have to stir it frequently, or all the scum rises to the top.”